by Catherine | May 29, 2012 | Child development
Young children have a mandate to master their world through direct action. How often you have you seen your toddler try to push the full shopping cart – and be crushed if you don’t let them? Push activities not only create strength, but also give your...
by Catherine | May 23, 2012 | Somatic mamas
The body-mind connection is a new idea, but it is simply naming experiences that we all have had. Babies and young children are almost always swimming blithely around in their own phenomenally developing body-mind connections, while we as adults go in and out of being...
by Catherine | May 20, 2012 | Child development
The moveable feast From your baby’s first days of swimming in utero and throughout early childhood, he is developing body maps that give him a secure sense of self – and his first math skills. As your child moves, her little brain is receiving a feast of...